Friends from outta town?

Metro Reporter11 April 2012

1. Food and Drink

Hakkasan

Such fun: confirm out-of-towners' worst fears about London by dragging them up the crackhead alley that leads to Hakkasan, then watch as they clock its interior. Fabulous nouveau-Chinese food.

2. Cabaret

Duckie

Avant-garde art dragsters Duckie have twisted their way from the Vauxhall Tavern to the high art Barbican. This is London at it's most seedy and glamorous. Tonight and tomorrow, Fri until Sun, Barbican, Silk Street EC2, 7.30pm, Fri and Sat extra perfs 10.15pm, £15.

Tel: 0845 120 7550. www.barbican.org.uk Tube: Barbican/Moorgate

3. Film

The Life Of Oharu

A 1952 story of a 17th-century samurai from the great Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi, released in a new print. Truly wonderful and difficult to see anywhere outside London.

Until Jan 8, Renoir Cinema, Brunswick Square WC1, various times, £5 to £7.50, £3.50 concs. Tel: 020 7837 8402. Tube: Russell Square

4. Theatre: The Price

Arthur Miller's moral family saga is somewhat conventional theatrical fare, but this is a treat with Warren Mitchell.

Until Jan 17, Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue W1, Mon to Sat 7.30pm, Wed mats 2.30pm, Sat mats 3pm, £10 to £37.50. Tel: 020 7494 5070. Tube: Piccadilly Circus

5. Exhibition

Olafur Eliasson: The Weather Project

Go with some mates, then lie in a communal circle making trippy hand gestures at your reflection. Then all go 'wow!' in unison.